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Sky and Me
Personal Essays
by Ruth Lercher Bornstein
The shadows are more beautiful than the actual leaves, the magnified shapes more clear. I've never seen this before. The shadows like this. The early sun shining through the glass doors into the room like this. The wind shaking the tree like this.
I step into the shifting patterns. Into the leaves. Into the flickering light between the leaves. The light just right like this, the wind just right like this. I'd have missed it if I'd stayed in bed. Read more. . .
$16.95
The Chemistry of Buddha's Brain
By Marcy Greene
Marcy Greene writes with abandon and grace. She is a poet who finds in language a freedom we all deserve. Her poems traverse a wide terrain—examining consciousness and celebrating beauty in the natural world. Whether describing her love of horses, the southwest desert, or exploring language and the possibilities of poetry, her poems are always surprising and original. Read more. . .
$8.95
A Path through Stone
by Bruce Barton, Jonah Bornstein, Steve Dieffenbacher, John Reid
This is a remarkable book by remarkable men—a quartet of original voices blended together in an original way. It's a journey worth taking, this 'path through stone.' Our guides are mature men, poets of experience who have been down some paths of their own. Thus, the multitude of surprises as we round each bend, their voices soaring and blending through passages of fear and anger, through sorrow and danger, as we make our way to exultation and joy, to 'walk the land singing.'" — Lawson Inada, Oregon Poet Laureate Read more. . .
$15.00
Without A Map
By Gary Lark
These finely-wrought poems testify to the rich interiority of people trapped in hard-scrabble lives. The title itself underlines how the speakers feel their way into uncharted territory. The quiet plain-spoken language lets the poems resist easy epiphanies while showing how solace is sometimes found in brief moments of felt community or glimpses of the rhythms of the natural world. Lark’s language and characters give us a taste of the richness that otherwise impoverished lives can yield, inviting us, too, to observe the world closely, with clarity, and with feeling. Read more. . .
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The Summer Everything Changed
By Ruth Lercher Bornstein
"It was a summer of war. The summer of Rudi but mostly of that other boy. THe summer of Lilly, a girl I never met but who has always been with me. It was the summer everything changed." So begins this story of a teenage girl's awakening during the height of WWII in the summer of 1943. Meet Janet Kessler, daughter of immigrant parents and the sole Jewish family in town. Read more. . .
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The Well-Versed Parent
by Jane E. Hunter, MD
IN this unique book on parenting and child development, Dr. Hunter combines essays on the stages of child's and parent's journey through the child's teen years. Dr. Hunter
The Art of Waking
by Jonah Bornstein
$16.95
Woman's Journey: A Life in Paintings
"Rebecca Gabriel gives us potent insight into the inner and outer journey of the artist in critical times. That journey is one of the woman artist makes the revelation that much more poignant and profound" —Jean Houston, Renowned author featured on shows such as Oprah
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$29.95 hardcover
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The Last Poems
of the 20th Century
People who don't know what to do with a silent person often stifle what they already cannot hear.
—from "Silent Person"
In his mind he tried on those angelic days when the label businessman no longer fit
—from "1949"
"Bruce Barton's wise and understated poems of domestic love, frailty, guilt, allegiance and mystery, are deeply moving. The theme of writing itself is here— the frustrations and processes; learning completion before perfection and to retain his humor, even while he muses that 'we dreamers of the world ride on borrowed freedom.'"
— Sharon Doubiago, Love On The Streets,
Selected New Poems
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The Book of Baruchio
"The Book of Baruchio contains the outpourings of a spiritual man, who wrestles and dances with Hashem. Bruce Barton’s poems are divine sparks inseparable from his faith as the words of the Torah are from the Torah scroll itself.”
—Willa Schneberg,
In the Margins of the World,
winner of the Oregon Book Award
WIN, Change Your Thinking
Change Your Destiny
by Rabbi Stephen Baars
“Winners don’t have more stamina or built-in genius, they have just learned how to think in ways that get them the results they want,” says motivational expert Rabbi Stephen Baars.
ost of us believe that motivation creates success, but in this book you’ll learn that it’s the other way around: It’s knowing that you are going to succeed that creates motivation. Winners have learned how to make challenging goals easy, but easy doesn’t mean lower. The trick is to take the goals you really want, and make THEM easy.
Winners don’t have more stamina. They just have better ideas. They don’t have higher IQs. They just have great strategy.
This book will change your thinking, just by reading it.
Defend and Develop:
A Brief History of the Colorado Water Conservation Board's First 75 Years
By Thomas V. Cech & J. William McDonald
Colorado sits astride the continental divide with all major rivers flowing out of the state. Its climate is relatively arid, with most maoisture falling in the mountains in the form of snow and with rivers and with rivers on the West Slope having relatively more abundant water supplies than the East Slope. Since all major rivers are fed primarily by melting snow, a high percentage of their annual runoff occurs in about three months during late spring and early summer. However, precipitation varies greatly from year to year, resulting in uncertain annual runoff conditions. Read more. . .
$24.00